Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,589 5,560 7,110
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.70% 22.87% 19.34%
As % of the General category 34.38% 35.64% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,865 3,714 4,945
10th Percentile £357 £355 £360
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £592
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -2.83% -1.38%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £538 £563 £576
% change year-on-year -4.44% -2.30% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 91 227
10th Percentile £14.84 £18.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.70 £22.27 £14.83
Median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -40.44% +48.31% +4.90%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.50 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.40 £53.40
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £39.06 £26.97
% change year-on-year -39.00% +44.81% +4.90%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,074 15,601 21,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.38% 64.17% 58.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,667 10,126 13,790
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,465 667 1,786
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.98 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -10.57% -5.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £56.58 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -11.29%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,567 £575 -8.00% 2,282
North of England +3 1,151 £482 +1.39% 742
South East -1 651 £503 -2.88% 957
North West +5 617 £465 - 418
Midlands -1 589 £475 -2.56% 407
Yorkshire +1 498 £514 +3.84% 249
West Midlands 0 394 £492 -6.29% 220
South West -2 349 £520 -0.95% 312
East of England -3 199 £525 -4.55% 239
East Midlands 0 191 £463 +3.47% 184
North East -16 37 £488 +4.84% 81
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (3.82%) Confluence
2 200 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 49 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.61%) Apache
6 43 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.40%) SAS
8 22 (0.29%) CMS
9 19 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 17 (0.22%) CICS
11 14 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 14 (0.18%) Appian
12 13 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.14%) IIS
13 11 (0.14%) Mendix
14 10 (0.13%) Camunda
14 10 (0.13%) HCL Notes
14 10 (0.13%) Hyperledger
15 8 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 458 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 192 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 163 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 159 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 114 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 41 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 33 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 11 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.079%) Notion
10 4 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
11 3 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.040%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.040%) Sketch
12 2 (0.026%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.026%) InVision
13 1 (0.013%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.013%) InDesign
13 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 277 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 101 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 101 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
3 87 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 81 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 60 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
6 55 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
7 53 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
8 41 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
8 41 (0.54%) SAP FI
9 36 (0.47%) SAP CO
10 33 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
10 33 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
11 32 (0.42%) Aladdin
12 31 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
13 27 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
13 27 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
13 27 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 27 (0.36%) Workday HCM
14 20 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,172 (15.44%) Azure
2 881 (11.61%) AWS
3 555 (7.31%) Power Platform
4 360 (4.74%) GCP
5 265 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
6 264 (3.48%) SaaS
7 240 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
8 210 (2.77%) GitHub
9 208 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
10 128 (1.69%) Serverless
11 127 (1.67%) Entra ID
12 126 (1.66%) Snowflake
13 106 (1.40%) Amazon S3
13 106 (1.40%) OCI
14 102 (1.34%) Power Automate
15 87 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 80 (1.05%) OpenShift
17 78 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
18 74 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 67 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 133 (1.75%) Firewall
2 103 (1.36%) Network Security
3 63 (0.83%) DNS
4 57 (0.75%) VPN
5 54 (0.71%) WAN
6 47 (0.62%) TCP/IP
7 33 (0.43%) BGP
7 33 (0.43%) LAN
8 29 (0.38%) HTTP
9 27 (0.36%) OSPF
10 25 (0.33%) SSL
11 23 (0.30%) DHCP
11 23 (0.30%) MPLS
11 23 (0.30%) Multicast
12 21 (0.28%) SD-WAN
13 20 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
14 18 (0.24%) VSAN
15 16 (0.21%) Internet
16 15 (0.20%) VLAN
17 14 (0.18%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (6.23%) Power BI
2 194 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 193 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 150 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 140 (1.84%) Metadata
6 123 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 120 (1.58%) Tableau
8 109 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 81 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 77 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
11 71 (0.94%) Big Data
12 64 (0.84%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 44 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 43 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 40 (0.53%) Delta Lake
17 39 (0.51%) Power Query
18 38 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 36 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
20 34 (0.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 596 (7.85%) JIRA
2 175 (2.31%) Git
3 160 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 94 (1.24%) GitLab
5 45 (0.59%) JUnit
6 42 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 36 (0.47%) Selenium
8 25 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 24 (0.32%) Postman
10 23 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 21 (0.28%) MLflow
11 21 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.25%) REST Assured
13 18 (0.24%) Maven
14 17 (0.22%) Zephyr
15 16 (0.21%) Hudson
16 14 (0.18%) ERwin
16 14 (0.18%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.17%) Bitbucket
18 11 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,239 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 1,396 (18.40%) Banking
3 1,013 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
4 461 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 303 (3.99%) Financial Institution
6 294 (3.87%) Legal
7 259 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 255 (3.36%) Front Office
9 237 (3.12%) Retail
10 226 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
11 203 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
12 171 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 151 (1.99%) Marketing
14 146 (1.92%) Manufacturing
15 130 (1.71%) Telecoms
16 127 (1.67%) General Ledger
17 122 (1.61%) Local Government
18 115 (1.52%) Law
19 113 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
20 105 (1.38%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,140 (15.02%) Analyst
2 815 (10.74%) Senior
3 772 (10.17%) Developer
3 772 (10.17%) Lead
4 708 (9.33%) Architect
5 600 (7.91%) Business Analyst
6 599 (7.89%) Project Manager
7 511 (6.73%) Consultant
8 289 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
9 255 (3.36%) Data Engineer
10 194 (2.56%) Senior Manager
11 192 (2.53%) Financial Analyst
12 165 (2.17%) Data Analyst
12 165 (2.17%) Programme Manager
13 158 (2.08%) Finance Manager
14 152 (2.00%) Accountant
15 132 (1.74%) Delivery Manager
16 127 (1.67%) Software Engineer
17 126 (1.66%) Java Developer
18 117 (1.54%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (3.16%) Kafka
2 220 (2.90%) .NET
3 211 (2.78%) REST
4 188 (2.48%) React
5 172 (2.27%) Middleware
6 148 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
7 133 (1.75%) Spring
8 132 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 120 (1.58%) RESTful
10 96 (1.26%) Node.js
11 95 (1.25%) PySpark
12 86 (1.13%) AngularJS
13 76 (1.00%) Redux
14 71 (0.94%) JSON
14 71 (0.94%) XML
15 70 (0.92%) OAuth
16 63 (0.83%) CSS
16 63 (0.83%) HTML
17 61 (0.80%) Pandas
18 53 (0.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 326 (4.30%) Onboarding
2 307 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 271 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 199 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 185 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 163 (2.15%) Data Structures
7 151 (1.99%) Derivative
8 141 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 134 (1.77%) Fixed Income
10 131 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
11 127 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 126 (1.66%) Data Centre
13 100 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 100 (1.32%) Equities
14 92 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 87 (1.15%) Public Cloud
16 79 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 74 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
18 66 (0.87%) AI Agents
19 65 (0.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 241 (3.18%) Windows
2 235 (3.10%) Linux
3 119 (1.57%) Unix
4 61 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 43 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 31 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 29 (0.38%) Solaris
8 24 (0.32%) zOS
9 22 (0.29%) Android
10 17 (0.22%) AIX
11 16 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (0.18%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.092%) VMS
14 6 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.066%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.066%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.053%) HPUX
16 4 (0.053%) MVS
16 4 (0.053%) SUSE
16 4 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,624 (21.40%) Agile
2 1,525 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,034 (13.62%) Migration
4 1,033 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
5 851 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 821 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 816 (10.75%) DevOps
8 764 (10.07%) ERP
9 757 (9.97%) CI/CD
10 736 (9.70%) Analytics
11 733 (9.66%) Project Management
12 732 (9.65%) AI
13 657 (8.66%) Decision-Making
14 649 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
15 618 (8.14%) Data Modelling
16 615 (8.10%) Roadmaps
17 597 (7.87%) Validation
18 579 (7.63%) User Acceptance Testing
19 531 (7.00%) Change Management
20 521 (6.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (14.28%) SQL
2 904 (11.91%) Python
3 491 (6.47%) Java
4 316 (4.16%) C#
5 204 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 191 (2.52%) TypeScript
7 139 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 91 (1.20%) C++
9 73 (0.96%) PL/SQL
10 64 (0.84%) Go
11 62 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 57 (0.75%) Bash
13 48 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 48 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 44 (0.58%) Scala
14 44 (0.58%) VBA
15 31 (0.41%) R
16 25 (0.33%) Bicep
17 24 (0.32%) Apex Code
17 24 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 655 (8.63%) Degree
2 645 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 455 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 196 (2.58%) PMP
5 186 (2.45%) ACCA
6 174 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 168 (2.21%) CIMA
8 130 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 125 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 112 (1.48%) CISSP
11 96 (1.26%) Master's Degree
12 79 (1.04%) DV Cleared
13 74 (0.98%) CISM
14 60 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 43 (0.57%) AWS Certification
16 41 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
17 37 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
18 31 (0.41%) ISTQB
19 30 (0.40%) CBAP
20 29 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 439 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 361 (4.76%) QA
3 306 (4.03%) PMO
4 274 (3.61%) GDPR
5 150 (1.98%) NIST
6 125 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 93 (1.23%) IFRS
8 92 (1.21%) SLA
9 81 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 74 (0.98%) GRC
11 66 (0.87%) Accessibility
12 62 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.72%) ISO 20022
14 45 (0.59%) GAAP
15 37 (0.49%) PSD2
15 37 (0.49%) SEPA
16 35 (0.46%) NCSC
17 26 (0.34%) MiFID
18 25 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
19 24 (0.32%) EMIR
System Software
1 263 (3.47%) Docker
2 130 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 51 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.38%) vSphere
5 23 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.13%) NFS
9 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.12%) GPFS
11 5 (0.066%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.066%) RACF
12 4 (0.053%) ACF2
12 4 (0.053%) KVM
13 3 (0.040%) GridGain
13 3 (0.040%) HDFS
13 3 (0.040%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.040%) SRDF
14 2 (0.026%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 352 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 213 (2.81%) Terraform
3 103 (1.36%) Ansible
4 71 (0.94%) Grafana
5 57 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 56 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.61%) SCCM
8 31 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.21%) Control-M
9 16 (0.21%) vRealize
10 14 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (0.18%) AirWatch
11 13 (0.17%) Argo
11 13 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.16%) CASB
13 11 (0.14%) Nessus
13 11 (0.14%) Puppet
14 9 (0.12%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.11%) Kiali
Vendors
1 983 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 635 (8.37%) Oracle
3 634 (8.35%) SAP
4 267 (3.52%) ServiceNow
5 208 (2.74%) Databricks
6 172 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 158 (2.08%) Google
8 123 (1.62%) Workday
9 113 (1.49%) Splunk
10 95 (1.25%) VMware
11 89 (1.17%) Cisco
12 78 (1.03%) IBM
13 73 (0.96%) Citrix
13 73 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 54 (0.71%) Sage
15 51 (0.67%) Informatica
15 51 (0.67%) OpenAI
16 50 (0.66%) Bloomberg
17 49 (0.65%) IFS
17 49 (0.65%) Murex